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Because they have strategic partnerships with Iran, for a start. I'm less optimistic about China than most on this forum, but this is not an attack on Niger, Burkina Faso or even Cuba and Venezuela, it's a direct attack on what should be a critical military ally that would even have every right to call for Chinese assistance, including within the UN charter. It's depressing this is the most China can offer an ally, and makes me wonder if they would do anything if even the DPRK got attacked at this point. It's not about being world police, it's about mutual self-defence and they should at the very least threaten some diplomatic repercussion or material support of some kind.

But even at that, they're also a permanent member of the Security Council, so if they're gonna pretend the UN has any legitimacy they at least have a global responsibility to do more than this. For what it's worth, South Africa forced the ICC to issue a warrant against Netanyahu and Petro was in US soil calling for US soldiers to disobey orders and create an army to liberate Palestine, so even on the diplomatic front they're lagging behind. 30 Cuban soldiers died defending Maduro, and the DPRK helped defend Kursk. At some point this inaction becomes complacency which, with power to do something, will eventually become complicity. I'm not a Chinese citizen, so I have no say on Chinese foreign policy, but they're proving themselves a lackluster ally, specially comparing to Capitalist Russia. They should at the very least say "we condemn this and are looking into reducing trade with Israel until it shows commitment to peace in the region" or something.